How do you pretend to know that other 3rd party voters would stay home or NOT vote Republican, if there were no 3rd party candidate?

Because most third party voters know perfectly well that their candidate is not going to win the Presidency (or any other high Federal office). By definition, that makes third parties protest votes for people who know that Crook/Moron (D) or Moron/Crook (R) is going to be President, but who can't bring themselves to bother voting for either.

The bottom line remains that Bush I, Dole, McCain, and Romney can go on pretending that third party candidates cost them the election, when the fact remains that people wouldn't be voting for those third party candidates (or staying home) if the GOP fielded halfway decent candidates to begin with.

Incidentally, there are third party breakaways on the Left as well: Ralph Nader and his Greens. Gore blamed them for his loss in 2000. Chances are, most of those people wouldn't have voted for Gore either, even if there were no Nader and no Green party.

That attitude serves ONLY to accelerate the decline and destruction of America. It does NOTHING toward sending any entrenched establishment a message.

Lately, establishment Republicans have done almost as much to accelerate America's decline as have Democrats, so I fail to see your point.

Does it really matter to me (or to you) whether amnesty for illegal third world immigrants is signed into law by a Democrat or a Republican? The net result is exactly the same. Or if the banks and wall street firms get another taxpayer-funded bailout under a Republican lead TARP vs. a Democrat-led "stimulus"?

There is a third party in VA guaranteed to elect McAuliffe. Cuccinelli has no chance; he has trailed throughout the campaign. He has avoided immigration as an issue, arguing that is a federal and not a state matter. I am sure will find out on the night Nov. 5 that VA is still stuck on stupid.

>> Gary Johnson and the Libertarian Party are a joke and have nothing to do with Ron Paul who in 2008 endorsed the Constitution Party NOT the Joke Libertarian Party. <<

Ron Paul was the LP's nominee for President in 1988, I'd hardly say he has nothing to do with them. He ran as a Republican to get elected to Congress, but he has close ties to the LP and most "big L" card-carrying Libertarian Party members are big Ron Paul fans who would love to run him for President again.

Yes, Paul's pro-life, and most of the LP is pro-choice, but the scary thing is that Paul is probably more conservative than the average Paulbot who worships him. I'd be willing to bet that at least 70-80% of the people who voted for Gary Johnson were Paulbots. I know several Paulbots who voted for Gary Johnson, including one who lied and claimed he was going to support Romney in the general, then admitted later that he pulled the lever for Johnson.

Ron Paul tried to stay neutral in the 2008 presidential election. He finally endorsed the Consitution Party nominee only because Bob Barr wouldn't shut up and kept trying to cash in on Paul's personality cult by retroactively claiming he was Ron Paul's BFF when the two served in Congress together. Paul knew it was BS, and endorsed the Constitution Party candidate just to make it explicitly clear he was NOT supporting Barr.

Someone only talked of the Libertarian Party and their platform is online. Nobody ever mentioned individual libertarians but it’s a long time since one expected those associated with the libertarian cause to be reasonable and Gary Johnson pulled his 2% or however much of the national vote.

I don’t necessarily disagree, but I find it ironic that people who were praised in 2010 are suddenly RINOs now. I don’t think I agree with anyone 100% of the time. I don’t think that makes them a RINO though.

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